Fancy getting involved with SORBS...? Want to help out...? We of SORBS
are always looking for help on a variety of fronts. For example:

People to translate the web sites accurately from English to languages
of the world (eg Spanish, French, German, Chinese etc).

Hosting around the world, for both the web sites and secondary DNS servers.

Perl mongers.

Experienced 'C' programmers.

People that have plenty of time and are familiar with the workings of
the Internet to do research into spammers and botnets.

People to proof read and correct the web site - in any language.

If you become one of the people to help SORBS, there is not much in the way of
recognition. Most get their name on the SORBS Sponsors
page, and for considerable donations, their banner and links on each page
in the sponsors column.

Details of each category and contacts follow.

If you think you can offer something to SORBS not listed on this page, feel
free to email your suggestion to Michelle Sullivan

Translators and Proof readers

Help wanted for translating the SORBS site to multiple languages. Priority
translations required for:

French

German

Spanish

Dutch

Italian

Simplified Chinese

Russian

Polish

Translations to other languages will be welcomed.

Proof readers are wanted to proof read the site looking for grammar and spelling
mistakes on all the SORBS public pages. This includes but is not limited to the
English Language site.

Note: Languages will only come online when the entire site is translated.

Occasionally the servers get DDoSed by people upset with being blocked
or just because they want to.

The web sites are a big target for crackers.

Current DNS traffic is a constant 1-3Mbps depending on location. (For
that reason, SORBS cannot accept hosting from people on DSL or Cable.
Thanks for the offer, but sorry.)

The SORBS web sites will be addressed as: http://www.dnsbl.*.sorbs.net/
where * maps to the location.

All SORBS web sites must run a local DNS server, though this is not
required to be public.

All SORBS machines run some form of Unix - no exceptions (SORBS is not
written with Windows in mind).

Public SORBS secondaries run
rbldnsd, this is due to the memory requirements of both BIND and djbdns,
both of which have their advantages, but neither of which were written
with black hole type lists in mind.

Test servers have large numbers of outgoing packets and generate
quite a number of complaints.